So anyhow after that to wind up that long to be chronicled get together day, the anniversary of his first holy communion, after that same barbecue beanfeast was all over poor old hospitable King Roderick O'Conor, the paramount chief polemarch and last preelectric kingº of allº Ireland who was anything you say yourself between fiftyfour and fiftyfive years of age at the time after the socalled last supper he greatly gave those maltknights and beerchurlsº in his umbrageous house of the hundred bottles or at leastº he wasn'tº actually the then last kingº of all Ireland for the time being for the jolly good reason that he was still such as he was the eminent kingº of all Ireland himself after the last preeminent kingº of all Ireland, the ^|2whilom^2| joky old top that went before himº King Art MacMurrough Kavanagh of the leather leggings, now of parts unknown, God guard his generous soul that put a poached fowl in the poor man's pot before he took to his pallyass with the weeping eczema for better and worse until he went and died neverthelessº the year the sugar was scarceº and himself down to three cows that was meat and drink and dogs and washing to him,º 'tis good causeº we have to remember it,º anyhowº ^|2wait till I tell youº^2| what did he do poor old Roderick O'Conor ^|2Rex,^2| the auspicious waterproof monarch of all Ireland when he found himself all alone by himself in his grand old historic pile after all of them had all gone off with themselves as best they could on footback ^|2in extended order^2| a tree's length from the longest way out down the switchbackward road, the unimportant Parthalonians with the ^|2mouldy^2| Firbolgs and the Tuatha de Danaan googs and all the rest of the notmuchers and other slygrogging suburbanitesº that he didn'tº care the royal spit out of his
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^|2ostensible^2| mouth about well what do you think he did^|2, sir,º^2| but faix he just went heeltapping through the winespilth and weevily popcorks that were kneedeep round his own right royal round rollicking topers'º table with his old Roderick Random pullon hat at a cant on him, the body you'd pity him, the way the world is, poor he, the heart of Midleinster and the supereminent lord of them all, overwhelmed as he was with black ruin like a sponge out of water and singing all to himself through his old tears ^|2broken starkened^2| by the most regal belches I've a terrible errible lot todo today todo toderribleday well what did he go and do at allº His Most Exuberant Majesty King Roderick O'Conor but arrah bedamnbut he finalised by lowering his woollyº throat with the wonderful midnight thirst was on him as keen as mustard and leave it if he didn'tº suck up sure enough like a Trojan in some particular cases with the assistance of his venerated tongue whateverº surplus rotgut sorra much was left by the lazy lousersº in the different bottoms of the various different replenquished drinking utensils left there behind them on the premisesº by the departed honourable homegoers
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suchº as it was no matter whether it was chateaubottled Guinness'sº or Phoenix breweryº stout it was or John Jameson and Sons or Roob Coccola or for the matter of that O'Connell's famous old Dublin ale that he wanted like hell as a fallback of several different quantities and qualities amounting in all to I should say considerably more than the better part of a gill or naggin of imperial dry and liquid measure.